Search Results: Authors starting with V from Schubertiade

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Three typed letters signed from the medical researcher to Professor Irma Antonetto of the Associazione Culturale Italiana, finalizing arrangements for a series of lectures he was to give in April and May of 1965.  In the first letter (February 26, 1965;  1 pp. on A4 The Children's Hospital Research Foundation stationary), Sabin writes in part "It will, unfortunately, not be possible for me to go to Turin immediately after my arrival in Milan...Radiotelevisione Italiana is planning to spend several hours with me to tape an interview, and also I have made arrangements for a conference during the evening."  By the time of the next letter a month later (March 20, 1965;  1 pp. on CHRF stationary), his schedule appears to have cleared, as he writes "I shall regard the arrangements that you have made as final and will go to Turin directly from the airport on my arrival in Milan."  The remainder of the letter addresses the question of whether his talk should be in English… Read More

New York: Ricordi, 1960 (date of "New Copyright'). Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Offrandes for soprano and chamber orchestra. Full score. 8vo. 10.5 x 7 inches (26.7 x 17.5 cm). 31 pp. [PN] NY 2074. Inscribed by the composer on the title to Peter Smith, then an engineering student working at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, who had assisted Varèse with some of his early pioneering efforts in electronic music: "au Herr Prof. Peter Smith cordial souvenir Edgard Varèse."  In original gray wrappers, slightly worn and with small stains. Miniscule pinprick through head of upper wrapper and first pages, else in very fine condition throughout.In an email to Schubertiade Music & Arts, Peter Smith recalls that "in the course of that work, I assisted several well-known composers in how to use the electronic equipment in order to achieve their musical desires.  Edgard Varèse was one of those composers. Varèse and I spent several afternoons in the electronic music center where he… Read More

New York : American Music Center, 1946. Used; Like New/Used; Like New. The French-American composer's only work for flute alone in its revised version. Quarto. 12 x 9.5 inches (30.5 x 24.3 cm). Unpaginated bifolium (2 pages of music). Inscribed by the composer to the title Peter Smith, then an engineering student working at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, who had assisted Varèse with some of his early pioneering efforts in electronic music, and recalling their efforts together to achieve a computer-generated timables approximation: "à Peter Smith – en evocation d'un staccato de timbales /  Varèse." Browned, with slight loss to outer edge of first leaf, a few small nicks and tears to edges, and small red stain to title, head left; otherwise in fine condition.In an email to Schubertiade Music & Arts, Peter Smith recalls that "in the course of that work, I assisted several well-known composers in how to use the electronic equipment in order to achieve their musical desires.… Read More

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Sepia carte-de-visite photograph by Reutlinger of Paris, ca. 1860. Verdi is shown head and shoulders, looking slightly to his left. 2.5 x 4 inches (6 x 10 cm) and in very fine condition.

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Original CH Reutlinger of Paris CDV photograph of the great opera composer.  Notations to verso, else fine.  2.5 x 4 inches (6.4 x 10.7 cm).

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Original carte-de-visite photograph by Disderi of Paris, ca. 1850. 2.5 x 4 inches (6.5 x 10.5 cm). Verdi is shown seated at his desk, looking off to the side. With the photographer's imprint at bottom and on verso, a few scattered light marks, overall very fine.

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Large format original exhibition albumen portrait photograph of the singer, signed in ink by the famous French photographer and embossed with his logo on the mount.  Photograph in very fine condition, some light wear to edges of mount, else fine.  Oval albumen photograph measures 6.3 x 7 inches (16 x 18 cm.), the full mount 10.6 x 15.75 inches (27 x 40 cm.).Pauline Viardot, one of the most important singers of the 19th century, was the dedicatee of Brahms' Alto Rhapsody and Saint-Saens wrote that it was her voice he had in mind when composing the role of Dalila.  Viardot created Meyerbeer's "Le Prophete" (Fides), Orphee in the Berlioz version of Gluck's "Orphee et Euridice," Gounod's "Sapho," and Massenet's "Marie Magdalene" among others.  She starred in Gluck's Alceste at the Paris Opera in 1861 and 1865, which Berlioz altered for the production.Born in Aups in 1832, Petit was a prolific photographer of portraits as well as other subjects whose work was widely… Read More

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Charming autograph letter from the important nineteenth-century singer to a female friend and pianist, organizing an evening of chamber music and reporting an amusing mistake made by her maid. Dated Thursday, March 29. Translated from the French: "Dear young friend, Will you be so kind as to bring the (simple) quartet version of the Bach Concerto? I cannot find my orchestra parts any more. Don't be late -- I have had a nice Pleyel brought for you. We will play in the Galerie -- it will be charming. [...] We'll begin with the beautiful Schumann string quartet. Can you imagine, my new maid, who brought your answer yesterday evening, said [...] that you would come this evening, but that you were too tired to play... Pantomime!!!! Isn't that lovely?" 3 pp. on a small bifolium with Viardot's monogram. In fine condition. 6 x 4 inches (15.4 x 10 cm).Pauline Viardot, one of the most important singers of the 19th century, was the dedicatee of Brahms' Alto Rhapdody and… Read More

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Partially printed military document bearing the Royal Seal and signed by Queen Victoria.  July 2, 1849.  The document appoints Alexander Edgar McGregor Gent to the rank of Lieutenant in the 69th Regiment of Foot, and has been embossed with an additional seal reading "One Pound Ten Shillings."  A London postmark to recto is dated December 22, 1849.  Three vertical creases and some light foxing, else in fine condition.  13.9 x 9.6 inches (35.3 x 24.4 cm.).

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. TLS by the Brazilian composer to John Pearl of Associated Music Publishers, New York.  Dated Paris, May 14, 1955.  In French.  1 p.  In part, translated from the French: "In response to your letter of May 11, I tell you that Associated Music Publishers will have a full score of Bachianas Brasileiras No. 8 at its disposal to manage the situation of my recording, which will be released in the United States, and upon my return to Brazil in early August I will send another copy to the publisher."  Date of receipt, " 5/17/55," noted in an unknown hand.  10.5 x 8.25 inches (26.5 x 21 cm).  Vertical and horizontal folds; later reproduction printed image pasted to foot of page, else in very good condition.Villa-Lobos recorded all nine of his Bachianas Brasilieras in the mid-1950s.

Paris: Bezzosi [sic; recte "Besozzi"]. Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Disbound upright folio. Engraved. 12.75 x 9.75 inches (32.3 x 24.6 cm). 32 pp. PN 20. Hand stamp "Besozzi" to title (confirming that the publisher's name is misprinted). Some foxing, gutter damp stained, ink stain to title; else in very good condition.A collection of virtuosic studies, dedicated to Giovanni Battista Viotti, for solo violin with increasing degree of difficulty; the final "caprice" is a fugue. The composer was born in Spain (as Felipe Libon), studied with Viotti in London and held positions in Portugal and Spain before he settled in Paris in 1800. The publisher styles himself "1ere Flûte de la Chapelle du Roi et du Théâtre Royal de l'Opéra Comique," which allows to identify him as Henri Besozzi (1775-after 1814), son of the much better known Gaetano Besozzi (1725/27-1798). The Besozzis were a large family of musicians of Italian origin. Little is known about Henri Besozzi and even less about his publishing business.

Paris: Paris: Benoit Ainé, [ca. 1860?]. Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Solo part of the composer's 29th and final violin concerto. Edition by L. Massart. Unbound upright folio. Engraved. 16 pp. [PN] A.C. 597. Scattered markings in pencil. Outer bifolium (with title) partly detached; some edges frayed, else in very good condition.The plate number and the name of the editor indicate that Benoît Ainé took over this edition from A. Cotelle, also in Paris, who first published it around 1844. The present issue probably dates from about 1860.Viotti, an Italian violinist and composer, "was the most influential violinist between Tartini and Paganini and the last great representative of the Italian tradition stemming from Corelli. He is considered the founder of the 'modern' (19th century) French school of violin playing, and his compositions, among the finest examples of Classical violin music, exerted a strong influence on 19th-century violin style." (Grove Online)

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Original etching by English painter and engraver Thomas Holloway, ca. 1791, who created these thirty-three head portraits of the French philosopher after illustrations by Swiss painter Jean Huber for Johann Caspar Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to Promote the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind, London, Bensley, 1789-98.  Toning and scattered foxing, irregularly trimmed, overall in fine condition.  7.5 x 9.25 inches (19 x 23.5 cm.).In 1772, in a note to French patron of the arts Madame du Deffand, Voltaire writes: "Since you have seen Monsieur Huber, he will do your portrait; he will do it in pastel, in oils, or in mezzotint.  With scissors he will make a cutout sketch of you as a complete caricature.  This is the way he ridiculed me from one end of Europe to the other."  Huber popularised the art of the silhouette, and worked without even making an initial sketch.  His talent for cutouts allowed him to create the most complicated scenes of fights and… Read More